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Background: Echo in Context is the longest standing and most watched recurring telemedicine educational event in the world. The program is characterized by its ability to present comprehensive information in a concise and easy to understand format. The previous years’ audience always decides the topic.

Purpose: The goal of this program was to maintain the clinical diagnostic skills of physicians who use echo, as well as provide an educational opportunity that addresses worldwide heart problems and efficient treatment regimens.

Why Watch: The need for echocardiography is ever more immediate in the cycle of patient care.  Echo is no longer just a diagnostic method as it has moved aggressively into the therapeutic milieu.  Aggressive echo involves echo in therapeutic interventions, and the list is growing. 

If we are to help patients overcome or limit the ravages of heart disease, we need a more intelligent understanding of cardiac imaging methods for guiding use of such therapeutic interventions as:

• Revascularization
• Resynchronization therapy
• Catheter interventions including valve repair
• Surgical ventricular or valvular reconstruction
• Medical or genetic ventricular reshaping techniques.

Many of these interventions require cardiac imaging methods to examine ventricular size, shape, thickness and movement are to assess, interfere, limit and correct the deterioration of the abnormally functioning heart. Whether based on anatomy, perfusion, tissue analysis, global and/or regional cardiac performance, these new quantitative methods such as curvature, shape, stress, strain, strain-rate, twist, turn and other factors are becoming commonplace.

As knowledge grows, it is imperative that those who care for patients with heart disease understand these actions, how they are measured, and how they are used to improve patient care.

Aggressive echo demands that echo adapt to the demands to improve patient outcome. As in previous years, Echo in Context will bring you the latest information in the most easy to understand format that makes it the most popular program about heart disease in the world.

Target Audience: This program is intended for, but not limited to, the following audience: Cardiologists, Electrophysiologists, sonographers, cardiac surgeons, anesthesiologists, internists, general practitioners, emergency room physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals involved in the care of patients with heart disease. Even students of medicine or nursing will benefit because echo is so pervasive in clinical care.

Program Host:
Randolph P. Martin, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Emory University Hospital
Atlanta, GA USA

Faculty:

David H. Adams, M.D.
Professor and Chairman
Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, NY

Paul A. Grayburn, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Baylor University Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Dante Graves, M.D.
Director of Non-Invasive Cardiology
The Heart Group of Nashville
Saint Thomas Heart Institute
Nashville, TN

Judy Hung, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Rick Meece, RDCS, RCS, RCIS, FSICP
Director, Echo Research & Education
The Heart Group of Nashville
Saint Thomas Heart Institute
Nashville, TN

Mani A. Vannan, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
University of California- Irvine
Orange, CA

Jean-Louis Vanoverschelde, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Cardiology
University of Louvain Medical School
Brussels, Belgium

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